Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) is a public company headquartered at 500 W. Monroe St., Chicago, Illinois. It traces its origins to 1928 (Galvin Manufacturing/Motorola) and took its current form in 2011 when Motorola, Inc. split into Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility. It employs roughly 23,000 people and reported about $11.7B revenue in FY2025, with a market capitalization around $70–75B. Its CEO is Greg Brown. (Sources: Fortune, FT company profile, Motorola Solutions investor fact sheet.)
Products and operations. Motorola Solutions sells mission-critical communications and safety/security technology, operating in two segments: Products and Systems Integration, and Software and Services. Major lines include land mobile radio (APX and MOTOTRBO two-way radios, ASTRO 25 P25 infrastructure), broadband push-to-talk (WAVE PTX), video security and access control (Avigilon, IndigoVision, Ava, Pelco, Openpath; V700/VB400 body-worn and in-car cameras), digital evidence management (CommandCentral Evidence), command center and dispatch software (CommandCentral, VESTA, Spillman), and mass notification (Rave). Customers are mainly government/public-safety agencies, plus schools and enterprises. It has grown partly by acquisition, including recent deals for Silvus and D-Fend Solutions ($1.5B). (Sources: Motorola Solutions product/investor materials; stockanalysis.com.)
Litigation posture. Motorola Solutions is a large operating company appearing in the tracked data exclusively as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 3 defendant cases). All three tracked suits were filed by Cedar Lane Technologies Inc., a Canadian NPE incorporated in 2019 that asserts acquired patents — many originating from Intellectual Ventures — covering imaging, JPEG compression, panoramic image overlay, and remote-control technologies. Cedar Lane is consistently categorized as a non-practicing entity by Unified Patents, Stanford's NPE Litigation Database, and RPX. (Sources: Unified Patents; Stanford NPE Database; RPX via NPE Showcase.)
Notable cases. Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Motorola Solutions, Inc. (two W.D. Tex. filings) and Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Motorola Solutions Inc. et al. (N.D. Ill., filed June 19, 2020). The W.D. Tex. filings reflect Cedar Lane's pattern of clustering cases in that plaintiff-friendly district, and its asserted imaging/video patents map to Motorola Solutions' video security and camera products. The case-data venue labels conflict for the Illinois filing (record heading says N.D. Ill.; a linked Unified Patents entry labels it Illinois S.D.).
Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. sued Motorola Solutions Inc. (amended to Motorola Mobility LLC) in a case docketed as 1:20-cv-03600. The narrative notes a jurisdiction conflict between N.D. Ill. and Illinois S.D.; Cedar Lane voluntarily dismissed the case.